Omura City

A whaler built a lake with his fortune.

Lake Nodake, Fukazawa Gidayu

01 ／ Kuromaru Odori

The dancers carry a great flower wheelof 81 bamboo poles fanned out.

A furyu dance handed down in Kuromaru since the Sengoku period, said to have been taught by Hoyo (法養), a ronin from the Chugoku region. In the entry dance (iriha), dancers carry a great flower wheel of 81 bamboo poles fanned out, each hung with washi-paper flowers. The city says the wheel can reach 5 m across and weigh 60 kg. It is offered every November 28 at the Hoyo-do (法養堂).

National Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property (designated March 10, 2014)
Flower wheel can reach 5 m across and weigh 60 kg (city)
UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage, with Okita Odori, as "Furyu-odori" (2022)

02 ／ Omura Domain Ofunagura Ruins

Three ship docks for the domain's boats,with boathouse footings and walls.

A boathouse attached to Kushima Castle, moved to this site early in the Genroku era (1688-1703) under the fourth lord, Omura Sumitaka. It held the lord's state barge and troop and cargo transports. Each dock is 31 m long and 8.4 m wide. The city writes that very few boathouses survive in their original form.

Prefectural historic site
Three docks, each 31 m long and 8.4 m wide (city)
Moved here in the early Genroku era (1688-1703) (city)

03 ／ Omura Clan Lords' Graveyard

The lords' tombs differ in form:kasatoba, gorinto and ishi-reiya.

At Honkyo-ji, the graveyard of the successive lords from the first, Yoshiaki, to the eleventh, Sumiaki, and their families. The tombs are gorinto (五輪塔) for the first, second, sixth and seventh lords, kasatoba (笠塔婆) for the third and fourth, and ishi-reiya (石霊屋) for the fifth and the eighth to eleventh; the kasatoba of the third and fourth lords exceed 6 m in height.

National historic site (designated September 30, 2004)
Tombs of varied forms: kasatoba, gorinto, ishi-reiya (Agency for Cultural Affairs)
Tombs of the third and fourth lords exceed 6 m (Agency for Cultural Affairs)

Living here

About 50 minutes from Nagasaki Station by rapid train.

about 100,000 people

The city faces Omura Bay and was a castle town of the Omura domain. Kushima Castle, the seat of the domain's government, is now Omura Park. City Hall is about 5 minutes by bus from JR Omura Station. The Nishi-Kyushu Shinkansen opened on September 23, 2022, and Shin-Omura Station lies in the city.

People living here: 95,397people
Area: 126.73km²
Households: 39,002households
Rent (average for rentals): 45,974yen
Healthcare: 8 hospitals ／ 90 clinics

Area and habitable land at the same scalee-Stat B1101 / B1103

Children waiting for childcare: —24 nurseries and similar
Home purchase subsidy: —
Average annual temperature: —

These 3 items are waiting on a nationwide data source. We do not fill them with estimates.

Shape

Borders 5 municipalities across 1 prefectures.

Omura City in Japan32.900°N 129.958°E

Territory of Omura City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

17.8km

Nagasaki Prefecture: 諫早市, 東彼杵町
Saga Prefecture: 鹿島市, 太良町, 嬉野市

Travel times per leg are not published by the municipality, so they are not shown.

Omura City isthis kind of town.

01Lake Nodake (野岳湖) is an artificial lake built with his own funds by Fukazawa Gidayu (深澤儀太夫), who made his fortune in whaling in the Edo period, and it lies within Taradake Prefectural Park. Work began in August 1661 and finished on March 3, 1663, at a cost of over 4,200 ryo. It was selected as one of the Top 100 Reservoirs (Tameike Hyakusen) by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries.
02The site of Kushima Castle (玖島城跡) is now Omura Park, and in front of the shrine hall of Omura Shrine on the former keep grounds stands the Omura Cherry (Omura-zakura), a national natural monument. Its flowers bloom in two tiers, with 10 sepals against the usual 5. The former Enyu-ji Garden (旧円融寺庭園) is a dry-landscape garden in which over 400 stones are set standing or lying on a slope, and is a national Place of Scenic Beauty.
03A city in Nagasaki Prefecture that was the castle town of the Omura domain, about 50 minutes from Nagasaki Station by JR rapid train. Kuromaru Odori, with Okita Odori and Suko Odori, forms the "Omura Kori San Odori" (大村の郡三踊), a national Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property, and the Kayase cedar (萱瀬スギ) in the Kayase national forest is, by the city's account, the only one in the prefecture chosen for the Top 100 Giant Trees.

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Source: Wikidata (P2002, P2003, P2013, P2397)

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